Prometheus-Christ (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
LASHED to the planet, glaring at the sky,An eagle at his heart-the Pagan Christ!Why is it, Mystery? O, dumb Darkness, ...
Reading Poems (489 Poems)
Hannah Thomburn (Henry Lawson Poems)
They lifted her out of a story Too sordid and selfish by far,They left me the innocent glory Of love that was pure ...
The Demon Of The Study (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
The Brownie sits in the Scotchman's room,And eats his meat and drinks his ale,And beats the maid with her unused ...
Idleness (Nathaniel Parker Willis Poems)
The rain is playing its soft pleasant tune Fitfully on the skylight, and the shade Of the fast flying clouds across my ...
The Metaphysical Paintings (John Perreault Poems)
<i>1. The Enigma of Arrival</i>We are nude beneath our costumesas in the false myths we have been forcedto memorizeand there ...
Notes On An Unadorned Night (Daniel Nester Poems)
after Rene CharLet's agree that the night is a blank canvas, a stationbreak, a bridge of a song.Let's agree further ...
When Sheridan Hurled The Discus (Joseph Ignatius Constantine Clarke Poems)
"Pinch me; ay, punch me, for fear I m not sitting here reading the paper.Sure as the sun in the ...
Letters To The Roman Friend (Joseph Brodsky Poems)
From Martial Now is windy and the waves are cresting overFall is soon to come to change the place entirely.Change of ...
Lectures To Women On Physical Science (James Clerk Maxwell Poems)
I.PLACE. — A small alcove with dark curtains.The class consists of one member.SUBJECT. — Thomson's Mirror Galvanometer. The lamp-light falls on ...
A New Simile (Oliver Goldsmith Poems)
IN THE MANNER OF SWIFTLONG had I sought in vain to findA likeness for the scribbling kind;The modern scribbling kind, ...
Ghosts (Joe Randolph Ackerley Poems)
ICan they still live,Beckon and cryOver the yearsAfter they die,Bringing us tearsMeditative?IIThose we once setWith us abreast,Shielded and cherished,Are they ...
Fifth Sunday After Epiphany (John Keble Poems)
"Wake, arm Divine! awake, Eye of the only Wise! Now for Thy glory's sake, Saviour and God, arise,And may Thine ear, that sealed ...
On The Glory Of The Qur’ (Hakim Sanai Poems)
Glorious it is, though concealing its glory: and a guide, though under the veil of coquetry. Its discourse is bright ...
A Relative and an Absolute (Mona Van Duyn Poems)
It has been cool so far for December, but of course the colddoesn't last long down here. The Bible is ...
Third Sunday After Easter (John Keble Poems)
Well may I guess and feel Why Autumn should be sad; But vernal airs should sorrow heal, Spring should be gay and glad: Yet ...
St. Martin’s Summer (John Greenleaf Whittier Poems)
Though flowers have perished at the touchOf Frost, the early comer,I hail the season loved so much,The good St. Martin's ...
Written Afterwards (Henry Lawson Poems)
So the days of my tramping are over, And the days of my riding are done-I'm about as content as a ...
“Town, a town …” (George Oppen Poems)
Town, a town,But locationOver which the sun as it comes to it;Which cools, houses and lamp-posts, during the night, with the ...
The Bonifratrian Hospital (Nijole Miliauskaite Poems)
having chosen exile, madness, obliviontheir striped clothes fadedfaces palethey sleep so heavilythe hospital garden is still empty, wind sweepsthe dust, ...
Pictures of Memory (Janet Hamilton Poems)
IA small thatched cottage, moss grown old, A low-browed, weather-beaten door,Two windows small, that dimly light The dusky walls and earthen floor.From ...
A Hail to the Hunter (Holman Francis Day Poems)
Oh, we're getting under cover, for the "sport" is on the way,-Pockets bulge with ammunition, and he's coming down to ...
Old Song (Edward Fitzgerald Poems)
TIS a dull sight To see the year dying,When winter winds Set the yellow wood sighing: Sighing, O sighing!When such a time cometh I ...
Olympus (Coventry Patmore Poems)
Through female subtlety intense,Or the good luck of innocence,Or both, my Wife, with whom I planTo pass calm evenings when ...
A Parody On “The Wayside Well” (Janet Hamilton Poems)
An Exquisite Little Poem In Dickens' "Household Words"Hail to thee, the Workman's Friend, We wreathe thy brow with roses!While thy useful ...
The Gadfly (John Keats Poems)
1.All gentle folks who owe a grudgeTo any living thingOpen your ears and stay your tudgeWhilst I in dudgeon sing.2.The ...
Sartor Resartus (Leigh Gordon Giltner Poems)
Ah, God be merciful to him who seesThro' ermined pomp and pageantry of kings,Thro' regal mien and beauty's witcheriesThe poor, ...
Marco Polo (Kenneth Slessor Poems)
READING how Marco Polo cameBy bridle-path to Kanbalu,Forgotten fibres wake to flame,And smoke old memories anew . . . .For ...
Conjugi Carissimae (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Marble fragment, freed at lastFrom thy prison of the past,By a spade-thrust brought to lightAfter centuries of night,--Let me take ...
Antichrist, or the Reunion of Christendom: An Ode (Gilbert Keith Chesterton Poems)
Are they clinging to their crosses,F. E. Smith,Where the Breton boat-fleet tosses,Are they, Smith?Do they, fasting, trembling, bleeding,Wait the news ...
Seclusion (John Lawson Stoddard Poems)
Shut out the World, shut in the Home!The sea is deeper than its foam;Retain the gem, reject the paste;Withdraw from ...